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Nell Gwyn, famous English actress and mistress of Charles II who worked her way into the Drury Lane Theatre group by gelling oranges, and David Garrick, a member of Dr. Johnson's group and renowned for his Shakespeare characterizations, are only two of the portraits on view in the Widener Theatrical Collection located on the top floor of Widener...
...Theatre Collection is maintained primarily for students and writers interested in drama, and with this in view the thousands of items of material have been arranged in a simple and logical manner, while elaborate alphabetical and chronological card files make everything easily and quickly accessible.DAVID GARRICK Famous English actor, whose portrait in oll, a likeness of which is shown above, started his successful dramatic career as an unsuccessful wine merchant...
What the uproar will seem like to those who have never come within the circle I do not know. To convey to them the quality of the devotion which his pupils feel is like trying to explain to one who never heard him the spell which Garrick cast upon his audience. For the Copey of his pupils is not to be found in works of art, in books that anyone may read, in contributions to knowledge which all can share. He is a teacher who has drawn out of a long succession of pupils whatever native gifts they...
...guessed that he was busy concocting a new farce-comedy. But that's what he was doing. As yet it had no name, and the chances of its ever seeing the lights of London were none too good. Especially since Goldsmith got along so poorly with the theatre managers--Garrick of the Drury Lane, and Coleman of the Covent Garden...
...widow older than himself, whom no one else found very attractive, was tenderly faithful to her as long as he lived (she died 32 years before him). But he liked to have young and pretty women around. He finally gave up going behind the scenes at his friend David Garrick's theatre. "I'll come no more behind your scenes, David, for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities." His letter to Lord Chesterfield, "thanking" him for his belated interest in Johnson's Dictionary, is a masterpiece of dignified resentment against...